At least 10 coronavirus patients died after a major fire broke out in the ICU ward of the civil hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar on Saturday, officials said.
More than 10 fire brigades were present at the spot as the efforts to douse flames continued.
The situation is now normal and under control, and there is neither any casualty nor any injury to any person. The casualty area has been reopened for patients.
Fire broke out at TMC MLA Madan Mitra's residence in Kolkata.
There are residential apartments on the top two floors of the building and smoke entered the flats following the fire on the ground floor, Ahmedabad's acting Chief Fire Officer Rajesh Bhatt said.
Three people, including a child, were killed in a fire at a scrap shop in west Delhi's Kirti Nagar area, police said on Friday.
A fire broke out at an e-commerce company's storehouse in the city's Rohini area on Friday morning, leaving a woman injured, a Delhi Fire Service official said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for the next of kin of those who have lost their lives due to the tragic hospital fire in Bhandara, Maharashtra.
The BJP has called for a bandh in Bhandara district of Maharashtra on Monday to express anguish over the death of ten infants in a fire at the district hospital here, a party MP said on Sunday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said orders have been issued for conducting safety audit of all hospitals in the state, after 10 newborn babies died in a hospital fire in Bhandara.
Many parents whose newborn babies were among those dead in the Bhandara hospital fire have blamed the staff there for dereliction of duty.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday ordered audit of all hospitals in state on an urgent basis following the fire incident at Bhandara District General Hospital that claimed lives of 10 people.
Heart-wrenching tragedy in Bhandara, Maharashtra, where we have lost precious young lives. My thoughts are with all the bereaved families. I hope the injured recover as early as possible.
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of the deceased in the fire incident at Bhandara District General Hospital.
At least two dozen shops were gutted when a fire broke out in a vegetable market in Firozabad, police said on Thursday.
A fire broke out at a garbage dumping site in Noida's Sector 54 late on Wednesday night, officials said. Five fire tenders were rushed to the spot which brought the blaze under control in around 45 minutes.
Nearly 3,500 people were rescued from an adjoining building after a fire broke out at a Mumbai mall on Thursday. According to the civic sources, the Mumbai fire brigade personnel are still engaged in controlling the blaze at the mall.
Over 40 hours after a fire broke out at a commercial building in a cutlery market in south Mumbai, efforts were still on to douse the flames, officials said on Tuesday. Two fire brigade personnel were injured on Monday during the operation.
A fire broke out at a warehouse in Delhi in the wee hours of Tuesday. According to the details, the blaze was reported from the Dwarka area, in harthal village of Sector-26.
A fire broke out in an ICU section of a government hospital in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district early Monday morning, an official said. All 15 patients who were in the ICU section were immediately shifted out and the blaze has been extinguished, he said.
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